- If you were to go back in history and take every president, you'll find that the numerical value of each letter in their name was equally divisible into the year in which they were elected. By my calculations, our next president has to be named Yellnick McWawa.

Really? Patrick and Booker? I know it's only 2013, but even now neither are really front-runner material, there. Clinton and Biden are both more likely for the top of the ticket at this point, even though they'll be a bit on the old side for it in 2016. And the space between them and Patrick (who, to be fair, isn't necessarily a bad choice for the office, it's just that Massachusetts hasn't really been filling the news with hope for democracy in recent years) is full of names.

simplicimus:Doctor Funkenstein: Excellent. President Samuel Jackson, your time has come. Let's see what happens when one of those teabagging turds tries to shout him down during the State of the Union address.

An actor as president? Not possible.

I know, right? Then who's Vice President? Robert Deniro? I suppose Meryl Streep is the First Lady! And Sara Jay is Secretary of the Treasury.

Whoah, whoah, wait, Doc. Who is Sara Jay?

She's a porn star, Marty. She f*cks for money. But somehow if you film it and sell the video it's not prostitution.

doglover:Krymson Tyde: I dunno, man. Arizonans just elected a pagan atheist.

How can you be pagan and an atheist? They're literally the opposite thing.

Confucian, maybe? A couple of the weirder sects of buddhism?

Pagan's just the Christian word for religions which predate the existence of Christianity in a given region (as opposed to heresies, religions invented after Christianity was around-- the two were dealt with differently with the first being more "be nice to them and bribe them until they come around" and the other being "fark it, set up the bonfire"). Atheism just denies the existence of gods, i.e. supernatural rulers. There are plenty of religions full of supernatural crap that don't have gods as such.

Uranus Is Huge!:LasersHurt: Uranus Is Huge!: I lost at roulette 42 spins in a row. Then on the 43rd spin I won. This clearly represents and trend and not an anomaly. I will now bet the farm on spin 44.

In Roulette, black and red had an even chance on every spin. That's not so much the case with the US presidency.

I'm pretty sure every space on a Roulette wheel has a number.

You're kind of missing the point about how blacks didn't have an equal chance to win the election all 43 times.

I'll love seeing them argue that he has enough experience to be President when he'll have had basically the same amount of experience in government as Barack Obama when he was first elected President. The cognititve dissonance will be deafening.

LasersHurt:Uranus Is Huge!: LasersHurt: Uranus Is Huge!: I lost at roulette 42 spins in a row. Then on the 43rd spin I won. This clearly represents and trend and not an anomaly. I will now bet the farm on spin 44.

In Roulette, black and red had an even chance on every spin. That's not so much the case with the US presidency.

I'm pretty sure every space on a Roulette wheel has a number.

You're kind of missing the point about how blacks didn't have an equal chance to win the election all 43 times.

Obama won in 2008 because he had what it took to beat the flawed establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the primaries. The Democrats are lucky he did, because Hillary would have been crushed by McCain (he wouldn't have picked Sarah Palin running against her).

The 2016 nominees will be new faces in the establishment, and neither black man mentioned above is going to be that person. We're looking at Democratic primary contenders of Mark Warner and Antonio Villaraigosa, and Republican primary contenders of Jon Huntsman and Bobby Jindal.

Black is over. But educated white males, or minority/hispanic politicians are still in.

Kuta:Obama won in 2008 because he had what it took to beat the flawed establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the primaries. The Democrats are lucky he did, because Hillary would have been crushed by McCain (he wouldn't have picked Sarah Palin running against her).

No, the specter of Bush was still looming over the party big time. It might've been a much closer election, but I still think Hilary would've won.

Kuta:Obama won in 2008 because he had what it took to beat the flawed establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the primaries. The Democrats are lucky he did, because Hillary would have been crushed by McCain (he wouldn't have picked Sarah Palin running against her).

The 2016 nominees will be new faces in the establishment, and neither black man mentioned above is going to be that person. We're looking at Democratic primary contenders of Mark Warner and Antonio Villaraigosa, and Republican primary contenders of Jon Huntsman and Bobby Jindal.

Black is over. But educated white males, or minority/hispanic politicians are still in.

McCain didn't lose because he picked Sarah Palin. He picked Sarah Palin because he was losing.

I'll love seeing them argue that he has enough experience to be President when he'll have had basically the same amount of experience in government as Barack Obama when he was first elected President. The cognititve dissonance will be deafening.

Cognitive dissonance requires they experience some discomfort with their contradiction. My experience suggests they are perfectly comfortable making contradictory statements when it is to their benefit.

Mrtraveler01:Kuta: Obama won in 2008 because he had what it took to beat the flawed establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the primaries. The Democrats are lucky he did, because Hillary would have been crushed by McCain (he wouldn't have picked Sarah Palin running against her).

No, the specter of Bush was still looming over the party big time. It might've been a much closer election, but I still think Hilary would've won.

John McCain would have swept the electoral vote 538-0 and won 70% of the popular vote if he had been running against Hilary Clinton, and he would have dragged on his coattails a massive 350 seat majority in the House and a complete sweep of the Senate seats that year, giving them 61 seats.

Seriously; I heard some good things about him, and read a few articles about his communication directly with citizens over twitter, but until I checked just now, I had no idea (and didn't really care).